Many people are just starting to roller skate during the pandemic because of social media, but L.A. has a long, rich history and culture of skaters. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) Some people ...

Every time I travel, I pack my seven pound second-hand roller skates. I bought them three years ago at the now-closed Skateland Vermont, a rink inside of a large warehouse that was always too hot and ...

When I tossed my roller skates in the tag sale pile over a decade ago, I was sure that would be the last I saw of them. It was hard to believe that the archaic disco shoes that introduced me to my ...

Mama Does Derby, based on theatre-maker Clare Watson’s experiences as a single mum searching for community, is bringing the sport to the stage ...

While roller-skating around Los Angeles during quarantine, Ana Coto's boyfriend confessed he'd never heard Jennifer Lopez's music. So Coto started playing J.Lo's "Jenny From the Block" on her phone, ...

If there was ever a scene to put to rest doubt that roller skating is back, big time, it would be here on the open beachfront blacktop of Newport Elementary School on the Balboa Peninsula, where ...

(CBC) – A Canadian woman says she had a Cinderella moment when she went shopping for used roller skates. As fate would have it, she coincidentally came across the same pair of skates she parted ways ...

Some people turned to sourdough. Others became plant parents. My quarantine hobby of choice? Roller skating. In the early months of the pandemic, roller skating was suddenly everywhere on TikTok and ...